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te anau today - light fresh snow to about 800m. Showers this morning but sun has been shining most of the afternoon. Light W breeze
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Frosty initially overnight but then it clouded over but cleared away during the morning to become fine and sunny and warm in sunny areas out of the wind. Slight NE here.
A few cloud build ups to the south this afternoon with that cold glaciaition look about them.
Some photos I took today looking south from Geraldine.
Today's maximum was 12.6C.
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sunny day in Te Anau with a light southerly breeze and some cloud around the hills. fresh snow down to 700m
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First cold front incoming, occasional spark in the Tasman. Might get a rumble locally.
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Bloody wet this afternoon. More than I was expecting. Nearly 20mm. Really heavy too. Up to 3mm/min at the peak not long ago.


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jamie wrote: Sun 08/08/2021 16:26 Bloody wet this afternoon. More than I was expecting. Nearly 20mm. Really heavy too. Up to 3mm/min at the peak not long ago.


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8mm here this afternoon so far.

Last time we had 20+mm in a day was back in May, no wonder the yearly rain has been getting further and further below average.
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That’s amazing your still missing the rain. I’m only 150mm behind average year to date. Two average rainfall months in a row (June and July) plus a good start to august so far with 40mm so far already.


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thought I just heard distant thunder, not 100 % though.
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800mm here year to date, closer to average
I see you are up with my on August rain to date though David (45mm here now)
wind starting to shift more SW here now..temperature has dropped..now only 9.4c
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A rather cold day with rain overnight turning to snow late morning.
Occasional wintry showers of hsil or graupel pellets throughout the afternoon and evening.
Today's maximum was 5C with 15.8mm of precipitation for today.
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Some small hail here at 3am very briefly. Down to 6C this morning.
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we must have a marine layer temperature here,,8c here...but you and Ricky only have 6c..which gives you a nasty windchill!
the clouds do look cold..they have that snow look
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After the current system moves off it looks like a succession of NW/ SW cycles with some vigorous looking fronts moving up country
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yes, this is a quick cold snap only
which the farmers will be thankful for
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Much nicer day than was forecast here. Mostly sunny with a cool southerly, 6C min 12C max.
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Yes, a mainly fine day but noticeably cold in the fresh wind today.
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Not much in the event of precipitation overnight and this morning, all out to sea moving north.
Cold day though with a rather cold WSW wind. Odd cloudy periods from cloud moving from the SW.
Today's maximum was 8.3C.
Here's a photo of some SW lenticular forms over the 4 Peaks area from the SW airflow over that region later this afternoon.
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Cold wet day at Thornbury. Very waterlogged outside.Puddles everywhere.Already had 60mm for the month so far with frequent showers passing through. Temp hovering around 5 to 6 C
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1.6C here this morning with some frost
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oh wow, its 10c here with the a fresh southerly wind blowing still
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Last night the wind blew strong till 6pm then had died to nothing by 8pm resulting in a -2.3C frost. The interesting thing is still hardly any wind now despite the isobars over the country.


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plenty of wind here on the coast
that cold air sitting ground level will be hard to shift, ie the wind will be blowing at higher altitudes
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Awhituobs wrote:plenty of wind here on the coast
that cold air sitting ground level will be hard to shift, ie the wind will be blowing at higher altitudes
True, but by 12:30pm when I wrote that it was 12.5C so thought any temperature inversion making breeze go over the top would have broken. The breeze has penetrated now.

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we reached 15.4c here , with a fresh onshore SW wind, so still warmer than the cold air in land (which is denser and hard to get moving)
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A warm day here which was interesting despite the conditions and the recent weather event.
Cold overnight but warmed up before sunrise with a westerly influence to be 5C around sunrise with a totally clear sky.
Scattered cloud moving north in a SW this morning with a clearance for a wee while before high cloud started moving in from the west.
Not much wind. Today's maximum was 16.7C.
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